REPORTAGE - Rachel Somerstein is an associate professor of journalism at SUNY New Paltz. She has written for the Washington Post, Guernica, and Wired, among many other publications. Invisible Labor is her first book. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family.

journalism

Could We Bring Down the C-Section Rate? Zocalo Public Square

‘You Can’t Manifest the Birth You Want:’ The Reality Behind the Natural Birth Obsession. The Guardian

Postpartum Depression Is Costing the United States Billions. Can Cities Help? The 19th/Next City

Why Moms Are Opting for ‘Gentle C-Sections’ — and What That Says About the State of Health Care Women’s Health

Rates of Maternal Mistreatment Are High Across the Board—Especially for Women of Color The Boston Globe

2018 Was Dubbed the ‘Year of the Woman.’ You Wouldn’t Know it From the Pictures The Washington Post

Can We Fix Our Family-Leave Policies? DAME

The Selective Memory of 9/11 Iconography, Guernica

PHOTOGRAPHY, ART, AND CULTURE

Image, Author, Failure, Chance: A conversation with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin Afterimage

Q&A: Photog's descent into the underworld Wired

The Lost Rolls, 1988-2012 Afterimage

Adam Magyar, Continuum Afterimage

Le Mois de Photo a Montreal, 2014 Afterimage

URBAN PLANNING

Here's a link to the work I’ve done for Next American City (now Next City) Magazine